"Yet it’s one of that history’s puzzles that a political family that looked poised at mid-century to pass from success to success instead fizzled and failed. And it is one of that history’s ironies that the great beneficiary of dynastic politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also left behind one of the sharpest critiques of dynasties in American life. Even as he reaped the rewards of a famous name, no one spoke for the dignity of the democratic mindset like FDR did. As we head toward what may be yet another dynasty-driven election in an era of deep inequality, it’s worth remembering that message—and the Roosevelt family’s consequential failures. It’s worth asking: Whatever happened to the Roosevelts? Why did their political dynasty fade, while others—the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes—thrived?"
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/what-happened-to-the-roosevelts-111686.html?ml=m_pm#.VDSZ0fl5M1I
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